The U.K.’s overseer of data privacy, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today that it has ordered Google to destroy user data it collected during its Street View mapping project, or the regulator will bring criminal proceedings.

When a Google recruiter emailed an Apple employee in 2007 about a possible opening, the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs discovered the email and quickly forwarded it to his counterpart at Google, CEO Eric Schmidt.

Some of Google Inc.’s cars were snapping up a lot more than pictures during the company’s Street View mapping project—they collected personal data, such as emails and passwords, from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks as they drove by.

On Jan. 3, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the culmination of its antitrust investigation into three facets of Google Inc.’s business practices: online advertising, patents and search algorithms.